The connected grid

Creating a more connected grid

As the fundamental structure of the power grid evolves from unidirectional, centralized distribution to a hybrid of multidirectional and varied sources, the ability to monitor and predict all parts of its behavior is a prerequisite. Employing the right connectivity technologies allows systems to generate insights and handle the amount of data coming from additional grid ecosystems such as electric vehicle charging and energy storage. These insights help make the grid more efficient, sustainable and reliable, so you can focus on improving infrastructure stability and scalability.

Modernizing the grid to make it more resilient and reliable through technology

Communities and their electric grid systems have increased demand for real-time communication, sustainability measures and decentralization efforts to meet a variety of energy needs, while engineers and designers define connectivity standards and approaches.

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Connectivity benefits for the grid

Scalable communication

Enable real-time data transfer to the connected grid with a wide-variety of industry protocols including RS-485, Controller Area Network, Ethernet, Bluetooth® and Wi-Fi®.

Comprehensive features

Choose the right features for your application, whether you're deciding between wired or wireless, high bandwidth or signaling, short or long range, or any other options for your design.

Secure and reliable

Integrate connectivity to help improve infrastructure stability and scalability. Process data with our reliable, affordable portfolio, with secure updates and communication.

Interoperable

Simplify your design with devices tested to meet a wide variety of protocols that are also certified by standards bodies. Our portfolios feature readily available software and hardware.

What’s new in connected grid infrastructures

The connected grid is seeing new trends emerge across many areas – particularly additional integration. For example, the integration of more e-meter data into the grid requires more connectivity. Our experts discuss these trends.

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5 things you should know about V2G

As rising demands are pushing electric grids to their limits, vehicle-to-grid (V2G) bidirectional charging can help smooth out peak capacity

Technical Resources

Application note

Optimizing Design of Electronic Meters with Logic and Translation Use Cases

Smart meters integrate common subsystems, whether measuring electricity, heat, gas or water. Although meters differ in what they measure, they do share challenges, such as communicating with wired and wireless interfaces.

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Application note

Industrial Communication Protocols Supported on TI Processors and MCUs (Rev. F)

Grid infrastructure includes various end applications such as smart meters, electric vehicle charging stations, solar inverters and more that need to connect to the internet using technologies such as Wi-Fi

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Technical article

Top 3 design considerations for EV charging

The electric vehicle charging industry is evolving, becoming more standardized, intelligent and efficient. Designers must include flexible connectivity and security to enable long-term integration with the grid.

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Featured reference designs for grid connectivity

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Eight-port IO-Link master reference design

This reference design implements an IO-Link master with fast and deterministic timing with eight ports. Each port can be operated with independent bit rate and cycle timing. This design can be used to build a remote IO gateway to connect to OPC UA, Profinet, EtherCAT or Ethernet IP. A PRU-based (...)

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Copper-to-fiber 100BASE-FX or 1000BASE-X media converter reference design for grid applications

This reference design details a methodology to use the DP83849 evaluation board to implement a 10/100BASE-TX to 10/100BASE-FX media converter, which enables copper based legacy equipment to be easily connected to a fiber network. Copper based Ethernet (10/100BASE-TX) has been widely used in grid (...)

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Sub-1GHz Wireless Long Range Reference Design with CC1120 (868 to 915 MHz)

Narrowband is an industry standard way to get long range RF communication with higher immunity to interference versus wide band solutions. Use this reference design to test out the longest range solution from TI for your Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The tool for 868 to 915 MHz uses (...)

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ETSI Cat. 1 Receiver-Capable wM-Bus 169MHz RF Subsystem for Smart Gas and Water Meters

This reference design is a very low-power, ETSI Cat. 1 receiver capable RF subsystem for wM-Bus enabled smart gas and water meters at 169 MHz. It provides market-leading blocking, selectivity, and RX sensitivity numbers for all wM-Bus N-modes as per EN13757-4:2013 and their respective variants, (...)

Development kit

Smart, connected EV charging station development platform based on AM625 with HMI

The electric vehicle service equipment (EVSE) development platform based on AM625 is a collection of hardware, software and documentation that allows engineers to start designing a smart, connected EV charging station with human machine interface (HMI). The analog front-end hardware is designed to (...)